FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APRIL 7, 2021
BOSTON, MA – NSBE Boston is pleased to announce a one-year Silver Level corporate partnership with iRobot, a leader in consumer robots and maker of the Roomba® robot vacuum.
Headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, iRobot is committed to STEM education and fostering a diverse workforce. The partnership with NSBE Boston will further strengthen the company’s efforts to educate students and create career and professional development opportunities for minorities in STEM.
“iRobot is proud to partner with NSBE in support of their STEM outreach program and efforts around career mentorship and training,” said Russ Campanello, EVP of Human Resources and Communications at iRobot. “NSBE envisions a world where engineering becomes increasingly mainstream in homes and communities of color. iRobot is thrilled to help further this mission.”
Through this partnership, iRobot will provide support to NSBE Boston at the Silver sponsorship level. Through this sponsorship, the firm will collaborate on 2020/2021 STEM initiatives with professional & career development programs aimed at both professionals and students, mentoring and community engagement programs.
“NSBE Boston is glad to welcome iRobot as a corporate partner. iRobot played an instrumental role in supporting our pre-collegiate initiatives this past winter and we are looking forward to advancing STEM for students and professionals in the upcoming year” – Marilyn Louis, NSBE Boston VP
With more than 30 years of providing channels of opportunity for academic and career advancement to the Black/African American communities in Massachusetts, NSBE Boston has a membership of Black Professionals spanning the New England area.
To kick off this partnership, iRobot donated 15 Root coding robots to Brockton Elementary and Middle School students for their STEM programming.
NSBE Boston will host a public professional development session in Summer 2021.
For more information on this iRobot and NSBE Boston partnership, please contact Alexis Smith – partnership@nsbeboston.org.
iRobot, the leading global consumer robot company, designs and builds robots that empower people to do more both inside and outside of the home. iRobot created the home robot cleaning category with the introduction of its Roomba® Robot Vacuum in 2002. Today, iRobot is a global enterprise that has sold more than 30 million robots worldwide. iRobot’s product line, including the Roomba® and the Braava® family of mopping robots, feature proprietary technologies and advanced concepts in cleaning, mapping and navigation. iRobot engineers are building an ecosystem of robots and technologies to enable the smart home. For more information about iRobot, please visit www.irobot.com.
